Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud turned away from Protestantism in liturgical matters, but remained stoutly Protestant at heart. Belloc makes clear the true distinction between the Anglo Catholics and Catholicism in his clear and

With this twelfth episode the story shifts chronologically into the 17th century and geographically across the channel to France. Belloc outlines the complicated politics involving the Protestant Hugenots faction, the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre